I had a python script that needs to access an oracle 11g database and run a select statement to pull back some records. The select statement is pretty much a simple: import cx_Oracle c = cx_Oracle ...

The headliner is an big bump in performance for the SQL engine and better coverage of ANSI specs, while enhancements to the Python API will bring joy to data scientists everywhere. In 10 short years, ...

R and Python already had access SQL Server, of course, but only if running externally, and thus transferring data queried from the SQL Server to the machine running the code. Running the code ...